Kitty-leaks: Arsenal’s Puma third kit is green and blue

Thanks to a shadowy Julian Assange-like figure, Arseblog News can reveal that Arsenal will wear yellow and blue on their travels next season when Puma take over from Nike as the club’s official kit-supplier.

We can also confirm Arsenal have opted for a blue and lime green third/cup kit – the first time we’ll have worn such a colour combination since the 1982-83 season.

Documents passed to us in a high-risk briefcase swap at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 detail the specifications for all three kits, the training gear and the date they are due on sale.

The home kit will be ‘high-risk red / white’ – it’s the kit Linford Christie unwittingly leaked to the Gunners fraternity a few months back. (On sale 1 July 2014)

There’s a host of other training stuff in various combinations of ‘high risk red / white’ and yellow and blue, including padded training tops, reversible jackets, rain jackets and leisure jackets. A veritable Mike Ashley wet dream of sports-casual.

Arseblog News – always sartorially keen – is slightly worried by the potential introduction of ‘lime’ to the Arsenal colour palette. Having just kitted the boys out in fancy Lanvin suits it seems a shame to ask them to strut their stuff in a potential sick-inducing combo on the pitch. Indeed, if we’re not mistaken Newcastle had a lime third kit by Puma last season and it looked a bit naff.

Like it or not, people abroad do attach quite a lot of weight to the appearance of a club, whether they have flashy “stars” and if their money is worth being handed over or not. Sometimes we’re a teensy bit too cynical

We won’t know until we see them, but from order that the colors are in, my bet is on the lime green being an accent color against a predominantly blue kit… which actually might look quite nice as a more avant-garde third kit.

I don’t think you need to worry about the kit being entirely lime green – typically when a colour is the third listed in a colourway, it’s reserved for branding or trim.

Estate Blue is the dark blue you see on the sleeve of the training jacket that Giroud’s wearing in the Linford Christie leak picture, whist Methyl blue is a bright blue; something like this: http://www.bike24.com/p251425.html

Screw puma. Players wearing their fancy dress costumes and running around the pitch would be awesome. Imagine kos as the scream guy, pod as the hulk (not the one who is arshavin’s team mate). That would scare the shit out of the opponents.